Waymo
Senior Product Manager, New Platform Discovery and Validation
$241K–$297K
Mountain View, CA, USA +3 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years; relevant experience areas are listed as alternatives.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical/Robotics Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Owns product strategy and validation programs for new autonomous vehicle platforms, coordinating perception evaluation, testing capacity, fleet readiness, and pre-deployment testing.
What you'll do
- Set perception evaluation strategy and manage simrack capacity planning and resource allocation across new vehicle, sensing, and compute platforms.
- Define and execute closed-course and pre-deployment rider-only testing strategies, including requirements and roadmaps for operational testing modes.
- Coordinate internal validation trips with vehicle supply, fleet allocation, and operations partners to identify rider experience and driving quality issues.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of product management or technical program/systems leadership experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, complex hardware-software systems, ML/perception evaluation, or large-scale testing and validation infrastructure.
- Track record owning complex technical products end-to-end and translating ambiguous challenges into requirements, metrics, and multi-quarter roadmaps.
- Strong analytical foundation in capacity and demand planning, resource optimization, and operational efficiency for constrained hardware/compute test assets.
- BS/MS in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Direct experience with New Platform Introduction (NPI), vehicle/hardware bring-up, or transitioning autonomous/robotics platforms to commercial rider-only deployment.
- Experience with autonomous driving perception and ML model evaluation, HIL simulation, COB testing, or autonomous fleet validation.
Pay
$241,000 — $297,000 USD base salary
Tools
Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), Car-on-Bench (COB), ML, perception, firmware, Simrack, RAD/RS, S&OP
AI focus
The role involves autonomous driving perception and ML model evaluation methodologies.
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